Background*

Mr. David Mark Rubenstein, J.D. serves as the President of The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. He serves as a Co-Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director, and Director of Carlyle Group Management LLC of The Carlyle Group LP. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Mr. Rubenstein was a Partner of Shaw Pittman LLP. He also serves as the Managing Director of Rhodes Partners. Prior to Carlyle and after his White House service, Mr. Rubenstein served for ... six years as a Partner and practiced law at Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, where he served as a Counsel on a number of major corporate mergers and acquisitions. He became a Deputy Domestic Policy Assistant to the President of the United States, a position he held from 1977 to 1981, during Carter Administration. From 1973 to 1975, he practiced law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He served at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He has been the Chairman of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since May 2010. He serves as the Chairman of Board of Duke University since 2013. He was elected to its board in 2005. He serves as a Director of Scene7, Inc. and Kennedy Center Corporate Fund. He has been a Director of Carlyle Group Management, LLC since May 2, 2012. Mr. Rubenstein serves as Director/Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Inc., the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute for International Economics, the American Academy in Berlin, American Council on Germany, Freedom House, Ford’s Theatre, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem. He also serves as a Member of The Business Council of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Dean’s Council at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Emerging Markets Private Equity Association, the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution, Advisory Board of School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University (Chairman), the Trustees’ Council of the National Gallery of Art, Endowment, the Madison Council of the Library of Congress, the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Council of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Trilateral Commission, Harvard Business School's Board of Dean’s Advisors. He serves as the Vice chairman of the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves as the Chairman of Global Board of Advisors at Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. Mr. Rubenstein is also a member of several advisory boards including the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors, and the Board of Trustees of the Young Global Leaders Foundation. He served as a Trustee of Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc. He served as a Trustee of Asia Society. Mr. Rubenstein was admitted to the Washington, D.C. Bar Association in 1981. Mr. Rubenstein holds a J.D., graduated from Duke University in 1970 magna cum laude, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and a 1973 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an Editor of the Law Review.

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